Free Flow plate heat exchangers

Free Flow plate heat exchangers

Our SONDEX® Free Flow plate heat exchangers are excellent choices for applications that use media with particle-rich contents, fouling tendency, or high viscosity. We customize each Free Flow heat exchanger to suit your application and media type. The contact-free plate channels ensure an unimpeded flow and long intervals between cleaning.

We set the new standard for improved performance and reliability when your media require gentle treatment and are unsuitable for regular heat exchangers due to viscosity, fouling tendency, or particle contents.

Features and benefits

Applications

  • Dairy/food/beverage industry
    – e.g. food production, like juice and alcohol processing
  • Sugar industry
    – e.g. sugar production, such as concentration of sugar content in sugarcane juice
  • Biogas industry
  • Wastewater industry
  • Pulp and paper industry
  • Mining industry

Technical specifications

  • Connections from DN25 to DN500 (1” to 20”)
  • Frames designed according to FEA and PED 2014/68/EU (EN13445) and ASME sec VIII, Div. 1 construction standards
  • Plate materials: AISI 304/316, titanium, SMO, Hastelloy*
  • Gasket materials: EPDM-HT, NBR-HT, Viton*
  • Plate heights up to 3.5 m (11.5 ft)
  • Flow rates up to 1,600 m3/h (7,045 gpm)
  • Plate gap from 5 to 12 mm (0.2” to 0.5”)
  • Working pressure up to 10 bar (145 psi)
  • Working temperatures from -20 °C to 180 °C (-4 °F to 356 °F)